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Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Saturday, Tues- day, and Thursday. It is noticed that the Marquis of Lansdowne is no longer a punctual attendant at the Cabinet Councils : he was present, however, on Wednesday, when the deliberations were unusually long.

The usual circular has been despatched to Members who vote with Go- vernment, stating that measures of importance will be brought forward soon after the meeting of Parliament on the 3d of February.

The Earl of Albemarle is named as the intended mover of the address in tho House of Lords.

Mr. Forteseue, of Ravenadale Park, is to be created an Irish Peer by the title of Lord Clermont.—Globe.

The appointment of Major-General Cathcart was that of Governor as well as Commander-in-chief of the Cape colony ; but some approach M a separation of the civil from the military duties has been made by the appointment of a Lieutenant-Governor. Henry Darling, Esq., Lieutenant. Governorof St. Lucia, now in London, is appointed to this civil post at the Cape.

We understand that Captain the Honourable Richard Saunders Dundee,' C.B., the Captain-Superintendent of Deptford Dockyard, has been offered the vacant seat at the Board of Admiralty.—Standard.

We are glad to hear that Captain Ramsay, R.N., is to hoist a pendant on board the Magicienno steam-frigate, and take command of the steam squadron at Devonport ; and that Captain the Honourable S. T. Car- negie will hoist a pendant in the Horatio, with the same object, at Sheer. ness. Captain Henderson, in the Blenheim, is already in a similar position at Portamouth.—Morriing Chronicle.

It is stated that the Board of Ordnance have sent down to Birmingham for tenders for the setting up of 23,000 rifle-muskets.

The recent discussion by the press and the public of the question of an improved system of legal education for the future members of the bar of England has apparently not been without influence on the Benchers of the Inns of Court, who have so long enjoyed the-dignity of educational government with so little of its cares. A meeting of an Educational Committee,.composed of Benchers of the four Inns of Court, was held in the hall of Lincoln's Inn on Mondey afternoon. Nothing has transpired as to the extent of educational reform contemplated, or, indeed, to show that the question has yet taken the shape of a project. It will be so far gratifying to the friends of this reform to learn that the Benchers are at least moving.—_Da fly Hew, Jan. 21.

The clergyman and congregation of the English chapel at Rome have repudiated the authority of their own Protestant Bishop, on the ground that the Pope, as Bishop of Rome, is sole ordinary of all episcopal churches in that diocese. The jurisdiction of the Bishop of Gibraltar is disowned ; but it does not appear that the authority of the Pope has been formally acknowledged. These poor people, therefore, for the present are stripped of the benefit of episcopal superintendence and favour. They are hanging in mid-air between the two churches. The principal agent in the perpetration of this scandal we understand to have been no less a personage than the Right Honourable Dr. Nichol, lately a member of Sir Robert Peel's Administration.—Dally News, Jan. 21.

The East India schooner Dolphin, on a trading voyage, was attacked , in.the.Bay of Maladu, six hundred miles North of the Sarebas river, by a party of pirates, who are said to have come from the island of Sooloo. Captain Robertson, Mr. Burns the supercargo, grandson of the poet, and part of the Malay crew, were massacred. The vessel was ultimately retaken by a Borneo chief.

The " Executive " of the Amalgamated Engineers Society have, by their Secretary Mr. Allan, stated publicly that Lord Cranworth "was never appointed or selected arbitrator" between the workmen and the masters ; "that he never heard the evidence" ; "that, in fact, he re- fused to accept the office of arbitrator—which seems curious in a man "never appointed or selected "; and, "that the conclusions he has come to rest upon a view of the case which includes demands we have never made, and which are opposed to our opinions." They state, "once for all," "that if an arbitration can be agreed on," they will bow to the de- cision; but they add, in reservation, "it must be an arbitration taking into account the real facts, and not assuming that we ask for the discharge of unskilled labourers, or the equalizing, fixing, or increasing the rate of wages."

Mr. Allan has also forwarded to the journals the following letter from Viscount Goderich, Mr. Hughes, and Mr. Vansittart, to the Executive of the Amalgamated Society-

" 7, Old Square Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 17.

"Gentlemen—Lord Cranworth's letter to Lord Ashburton, published in the Times of today, may do your cause some harm, as it is grounded on a misapprehension of the facts of the case.

"As we were the persons whom you trusted to lay the question of arbitra- tion before Lords Ashburton and Cranworth, it was our duty to take care that they understood clearly the points at issue and what you really did ask. " Now, Lord Cranworth says, 'The men insist that the masters shall not employ unskilled labourers.' 'are can only say, that when we made the ap- plication to Lord Ashburton we knew perfectly well that you made no such demand as this. "Again, we knew perfectly well that you did not ask for a law compelling masters and men to submit to any arbitration whatsoever. What you did ask for was, the formation of such a board as exists in France, under the title of Conseil de Prud'hommes, to which any masters and men who choose to submit voluntarily to its jurisdiction, and bind themselves to abide by its decisions, can refer all disputes between them ; and you told us you felt sure that all masters and men who wished for fair play and nothing more would be glad to submit voluntarily to such a tribunal as this. "As your case through our means, has been put on false merits before the publics we think that you are entitled to this statement from us, and shall leave it with you to make what use you please of it.

"We remain yours faithfully THOS. HTJOHES. A. H. VANSITTART."

The Central Association of Employers issued last week a representation of their case. Upon the general question they say-

" Shortsighted unionists, aware that we work against time, some of us under actual penalties, all of us under peril of the loss of trade if we fail in punctuality, induce the men, when the master is in his greatest difficulty, to take advantage of his necessities to wring from him humiliating and unjust concessions, which leave him without profit or threaten him with loss. Afraid to subject himself to the repetition of practices which present to him only the alternative betwixt heavy fines for failure of contracts, or loss of business character, and exorbitant remuneration for inferior skill, the reader declines otherwise profitable orders, draws his operations narrower, and di- minishes the demand for labour ; and this dread spreading generally through the trade, and too amply justified by offensive interference' forced upon every master, induces a universal disposition to decline the most valueable custom, and thereby seriously to depress the business and circumscribe the employ- , ment of the oountry.'

The particular points of "over-time" and " piece-work " are thus

argued— .1 It will readily occur to all who have the slightest acquaintance with eorameree, that production carried on almost entirely to order, and limited as to time in its completion, cannot be conducted without over-time, in a great measure as systematic as the punctuality of the time-orders received ; that as masters are taxed from 2,5 to 50 per cent more for the extra hours, when the service is least valuable, nothing but necessity would induce them to adopt the practice ; that from the very nature of mechanical opera- tions, which are almost as dependent on each other, and as successive in their processes, as the inanimate machinery they fabricate, the non-completion of one article may keep many persons idle who are waiting to commence some department of machinery to which the former is indispensable ; and that as the machinery and tools used in engineering involve vast outlay of capital, the only option left to the employer is to work one set of tools beyond the usual hours of labour, or to erect another set at an exorbitant expense, which, even if it would serve the game purpose, which it could not, must come out of the price of the work it executes ; in which case demand is discouraged, and customers are driven to foreign markets, and by their withdrawal the de- mand for employment is withdrawn. Many of ourselves have traced their rise from the condition of the employed to that of employers to the opportu- nities afforded by piece-work, which enabled them to become small contrac- tors, and thereby to avail themselves of the rewards of their directing skilL AB it is the fairest and least fallible test of the value of labour, and best en- ables the master to make his estimates with security, so it is the line which measures off the expert and industrious workman from the lazy and unskil- ful; and, above all, it is the lever by which patient merit and superior in. telli&ence raises itself above the surrounding level, and enables society to re- ward and to profit by mechanical genius and energy, as well as respectability of character. All classes, in nearly every avocation, have occasionally to work over-time—the Prime Minister perhaps the most—the successful physi- cian or the greatest lawyer the most slavishly. But men of any merit vo- luntarily set the task to themselves; those of the mechanic class earnestly desire it; and so far is either that or piece-work from being regarded as an oppression, our experience as masters Is, that in the eyes of mechanics as a body, it is viewed as a positive objection to an establishment that it does not afford opportunity for working over-time. The real objection to piece-work, we fear, is, that it protects the masters against those who are indisposed to give a fair day's work for a fair day's wages."

The workmen connected with the iron-trades in London assembled in a great body at a tavern in Stepney, on Sunday, to hear Mr. Newton re- port the success; he wan met with in his recent visit to Lancashire. The subject on which they were most anxious to receive intelligence MRS the progress made in the negotiation with a large Lancashire firm for the pur- chase of their engineering factory as the basis of a cooperative establish- ment to be worked by and for the profit of the men themselves. Mr. Newton stated that he had seen the proprietors ; and ascertained that the establishment will now afford work for 500 men, and under a system of eight-hour relays for 1500 men. The work done is of the same sort with that done at the great establishment of Messrs. Hibbert and Platt at Oldham. Orders are now on hand to give work for three months; and the proprietor says that if the present misunderstanding continue, he can without trouble obtain work for twelve months. "Let the 10,000/. required by the Executive be voted, and the balance of the amount necessary to complete the purchase and carry on the concern may easily be ob- tained from men who have expressed themselves favourable to the movement. It must not be forgotten that the fathers of some of the members of the firm of Messrs. Hibbert and Platt were mere operatives : they started, perhaps, with a capital of not more that 10001.; and yet they now employ 1500 men ; the value of their establishment is supposed to be not less than 150,0001., and their profits were last year returned to the Income-tax Commissioners as 44,0001. These profits are high ; they came from the labour of the 1500 workmen; and if divided among them would add 30/. to each man's annual income. Such a result from such a beginning justifies sanguine expecta- tions of the success of the cooperative system; for if 150,000/. yields annual profit of 45,0001., and has arisen from a small outlay such as that in the case of Messrs. Ribbed and Platt, what might they not do by starting with a capital, as they could do, of 40,000/. or 50,0001., when the men were ac- tuated by the incentive of working for themselves ? " Several other persons addressed the meeting upon the state of the movement in their respective districts, and it appeared from their state- ments that money in support of the strike is flowing in from all quarters.

At another meeting of the workmen, Mr. Newton is reported to have told his hearers, that under the cooperative sYstem the skilled workmen will not continue particular as to the work they perform—men of higher skill will not refuse to do smith's work, and so on, while they are sure that by so doing they are raising their suffering companions from want Tuesday was the first pay-day in Manchester for those members of the Amalgamated Society who have been discharged from work. It is stated that each 1319-11 received at the rate of 158. per week for the eight days during which the shops had been closed. The sum raised by the sub- scription of one day's pay from all the men at work is said to have been more than 2001.

The process of ascertaining the opinion of all the branches of the Amal- gamated Society of workmen throughout the country, on the co- operative scheme, is now going on. On Thursday, out of the whole hundred and twenty-one branches, returns had come from one hundred; and of these ninety-two were favourable to the grant of 10,0001. for starting the scheme.

It is stated that the employers have despatched agents to Belgium, to recal emigrant workmen, and to tempt skilled foreigners, by the offer of good wages and positions.

The investigations into the sad circumstances of the loss of the Amazon have been further prosecuted, and published. As the evidence was not sifted with judicial or forensic acumen by the Company's Committee, it is not so conclusive as it might have been ; and moreover it was not given under oath : so it may be enough, without giving details, to state its drift. Meanwhile, it may be stated that the intention of the Board of Trade to make an investigation into all the circumstances has been offici- ally announced.

• The statements made by the additional seamen and engineers now rescued only throw a general and uncertain light on the origin of the fire, but they more clearly illustrate the proximate causes of the loss of life. In the first Place, much importance is now attributed to the fact that the ship's crew was an assorted one from other crews ; it consisted of men who though in- dividually picked men, had never worked together before, and who were un- known to the captain m that intimate manner which inspires confidence and insures perfect cooperative obedience. M'Innes, the storekeeper, says that there were none of the crew working at the pumps but himself; and the captain said, seemingly with pathetic despair, What! only one man at the umps !" Again, Angus, the second engineer, found no man at the wheel; the man or men at the wheel had lashed it so as to steer to the bearings commanded by the captain, and had gone off to help launching the boats. Mr. Angus took the wheel, and the captain, coming up, exclaimed, with a sorrowful echo of his previous exclamation, '1What ! no seaman to take the wheel !" Angus says, that towards the end of the sad business, the captain ran about like frantic ; dashing buckets of water down on the decks. It should be remembered, however, that the sailors who were chiefly forward were cut off very 800o by the flames from coming aft; and when it is noticed that the proportion of those who have escaped is greatly in favour of the sailors and engineers as compared with the crew, it should be recalled that the first cargoes of those who hastily .got into the boats, and were horribly shot into the sea by the ea boats, "like bricks out of a cart," were chiefly passengers and wo- men. Some have excepted to the laudations at first bestowed upon young Mr. Vincent, the midshipman ; have pointed out that he left the ship in the first ten minutes after she was on fire, whereas the last boats did not put off till fully half an hour after the fire broke out ; and have commented severely on the fact that he did this in express defiance of the captain's orders that the boats should be untouched fill it was more plain that the fire could not be extinguished or the engines stopped. Dr. Drew of Southampton, Mr. Vincent's late tutor, has written to the censuring journals in defence of his pupil ; pointing out that at least he was cool and brave when afloat in the fragile dingey, and that his own narrative is a model of simplicity and mo- desty. Perhaps it is Mr. Vincent's misfortune not to have done unworthily at all so much as to have been too much praised for having done only well at last. The evidence seems to show that Captain Symonds acted on a clear and apparently rational plan. The vessel was going at some eight miles an hour' through a heavy sea, in the teeth of nearly a gale of wind. Under such circumstances, it was n his judgment, justified by events, madness to

try and lower a bO i

at. Moreover, every person who first saw the flames thought they could soon be put down. The objects, then, were to forbid any meddling with the boats, and to concentrate attention on the fire. Several persons speak of the orders to this effect; and they show how those orders were disregarded. Captain Symonds still did what was best. When the fire raged so high that the chance of extinguishing it became slight, he ordered the helm to be put down, so that the vessel should go about : thus the flames would be kept in the centre of the vessel, and there would be a lee-side of the ship from which to launch the boats in compara- tive safety. While the attempts were in progress to launch the boats, the captain repeatedly asked Angus if he could anyhow stop the engines; and he was answered "No." He then asked when they would stop of themselves ? Angus, knowing that the fires were low, judging from the beat of the wheels that the steam was declining, and knowing that the flames would soon ex- pend the machinery so as to lock all its friction-joints, told him "in about ten minutes." Towards the end of all, when the last men who have been saved were afloat, they saw the captain and his officers, with perhaps poor Mr. Warburton, another gentleman, and a lady, standing "perfectly collected" near the wheel; and they believe that those last remaining would still be able to get off in a life-boat, or in the captain's own gig, which hung at the vessel's stern. For the best opinion is, that one of the life-boats was not burnt when the last of the rescued got off; and that the only doubt about her is whether there was enough strength left on board to launch her safely. The gig could be launched easily • but she would be, if unprotected by any safeguards, almost a hopelessly frail bark for such a sea.

The demands on the fund for the relief of the sufferers will be very great It is deemed certain that at least one hundred orphans will have to be provided for. The Committee has very great difficulty in seeking out the relatives of those who are lost. So primitive and behindhtuid are many parts of the coast of Hampshire, whence most of the seamen of the Amazon were drafted, that it is believed "many persons most deeply in- terested in the event, living in the very vicinity of Southampton, are even now ignorant -of their calamity." "It was only on Monday that the Committee learnt that there was a widow with nine orphan children who had claims on them living at Deer Leap, a few miles from Southampton, in the New Forest. Thousands of the wives and children of poor seamen cannot read or write, and thousands never enjoy the luxury of reading a newspaper. Means have been adopted to obtain information of the sufferers by the loss of the Amazon, by desiring the Southampton postmen to acquaint all those poor persons living in their districts, whom they may suspect to have had relatives on board, to attend M at the ail Company's offices, and give information ; after which such in- formation is handed over to the Committee."

Sermons have been preached at Southampton and at Plymouth in aid of the fund. At Plymouth, the Reverend Mr. Blood, one of those saved in the boat last picked up, was the preacher. His personal description of the awful events by which he was a sufferer created a thrilling interest. In a narrative said to have been dictated by him, he ascribes his escape to the special guardianship of the God whom he is especially called to serve. It should be mentioned that he was weak and infirm.

"I went on board on the Friday ; and as there were but few passengers, I was accommodated with a cabin to myself, aft ; an accidental circumstance which attribute to God's providence; for had I taken my berth as I origi- nally intended, forward near the engine, I would not now be alive to tell the tale. That night I slept well ; but the next Saturday night I had a most unaccountable feeling, not of apprehension of danger, but of I know not what but, be it what it may, it had the effect of inducing me to lie on my bed with no portion of my clothing removed but my coat. I slept soundly from nine till about half-past twelve, and awoke then quite refreshed, and certainly was.not aroused by any cry or alarm of any sort on the contrary when I got up I listened, and was painfully impressed with what appeared to me to be the emptiness, loneliness, and stillness of the saloon. having put on my coat, (the only article of dress I had removed,) I walked about the saloon, and all was still and quiet; but as I advanced I heard the voice of the stewardess shouting out, The ship is on tire!' I then rushed up on deck ; and as I did so' I saw a rush of flames from the engine ; but still, when I got on the deck I saw nobody, and heard no noise or confusion, SO that much of the disaster must have been over by that time. I then saw some men endeavouring to lower one of the boats near the paddle-box' ansi at the same moment I became fully aware of my awful position, and that / had to choose between death by fire or by water unless I made some effort to save myself. With this conviction on my mind, I laid hold of a rope and swung myself over the ship's side, and was just about to precipitate myself into the boat beneath me, which was then swinging with her stem in the water. In another moment her human freight were in the death-struggle in an element not less terrible or destructive than that from which they had been making such frantic efforts to escape; and even at this moment their appalling shrieks, for the moment that they struggled with each other and their fearful doom, ring in my ears, Here again, I think Divine interference was manifested on my behalf; for an apparent accident saved me from that boat. Almost crippled as I was, I managed, by the aid of the rope to which I clung, to regain the now flaming deck, just as some of the crew were en- deavouring to release one of the life-boats from her very embarrassing fast- enings. They succeeded. She was turned over the ship's side. I was in

her then, and while suspended mid-way between fire and water, she turned keel up, and her oars were thrown out. She righted in a few minutes again, and when she did so I was still in her, by what chance I know not, but that the All-seeing Eye was still upon me." The Hecate steam-sloop returned to Devonport on Tuesday night, without any tidings of other passengers or mariners. She reached Brest 'with difficulty, against bad weather ; and went thence to the Bay of Bis- cay. For two days she searched every port along the French and Spa- nish coast; and crossed the sea in every probable direction, making in- qUiries of every ship she could hail. One vessel had passed through a vast quantity of the wreck drift, but had seen no token of humanity, dead or living. The two steamers Sprightly and Avon, which went out on Siiturday on the same errand with the Hecate, have returned to Ply- mouth with the same want of success.

As workmen were engaged last week on an old wall of St. Stephen's Cha- pel, whilom the House of Commons, they found de • ited within the stone-

work of the crypt, under the high altar, a human y. An oaken crosier, carved at the head and centre, was deposited by its side, such as mitred ab- bots carried in the olden time. The legs were crossed, showing that the de- ceased dignitary had visited the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. There were leather sandals en the feet. The body was covered with cerecloth. It is surmised from the mode of burial that the corpse was that of the founder of the building, or of some great benefactor. The wall is eight feet in thick- ness, and of that great hardness and strength which characterize Norman structures in this country. The crypt was formerly used by Mr. Manners Sutton, the Speaker, as his dining-room ; but is now to be fitted up as a chapel for the use of the officers of the House of Commons.

A governess at Wilton House, [the mansion of the Herbert family, now occupied by Mr. Sidney Herbert] happening to read the "Arcadia," had discovered between two of the leaves, folded in paper as yellow from age as the printed pages between which it reposed, a lock of hair; and on the envelope enclosing the lock was written, in Sir Philip Sydney's well-known autograph, an inscription purporting that the hair was that of her gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. None of the family had ever heard of the treasure. So this identical volume not only dedicated to his beloved sister, but entitled by himself "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia," had remained for two centuries in the library of her descendants, without any one of them ever taking the trouble to open the book ! The governess only—no Sydney, no Herbert—had taste enough, or curiosity enough, to take down the prose poem. I have not the honour of knowing the present master of Wilton, but, judging by reputation, I 49 net think that such a neglect could happen now.—Miss Milford's Recollections.

Two orphans, named De Coussey, have been admitted by the Prefect of the Vosges to the list of children to be brought up at the expense of France, upon the ground that they are descended from the family of Joan of Arc. The number of trees of liberty already cut down in Paris, and the baulieue is about 1200. The most remarkable was one which was planted by Louis Blanc opposite the clock in the garden of the Luxembourg. The number of the inscriptions " Liberte, Egalite, Fraternitk," on public buildings which have been removed, is about 1000.—Galignani s Messenger.

A great number of persons have lately died in Paris from apoplexy, caused, it is supposed, by the unseasonable mildness of the weather.

The propriety of forming a University for Law is at length under the serious consideration of the authorities. It is not even improbable that the next session of Parliament may witness the production of a measure framed for the accomplishment of this desirable object—Law Times.

The Law Times says it is very doubtful whether the Registration of Deeds Bill will be spin brought into Parliament next session. Lord Campbell, it is said, will have nothing more to do with it. "He is naturally disgusted at the treatment of the Government in giving him all the labour and anxiety of carrying the bill through the Lords, and then deserting him at the last moment.'

"The public statutes of the realm, as published by the Queen's printers, are comprised in thirty large guarto volumes; which must weigh, on a moderate estimate, a hundredweight and a half, and which cost, in boards, no less a sum than 94/. 7s. 6d. The expense of binding these ponderous takes is at least 121.; so that the price of the quarto edition complete is about one hundred guineas. The same printers also publish an octavo edi- tion, consisting of sixty-eight volumes, a bound copy of which may be pur- chased at about 851. The lowest price at which a second-hand copy of either of these editions can be obtained is, we believe, somewhere between 30/. and 401. The Blue-books published by the authority of the House of Commons are offered to the public at Is. 4id. per pound ; and if the same rule were adopted in the sale of the Statutes, each quarto volume, instead of costing from 21. 10s. to 3/., might be purchased for eight or ten shillings." Yet "every sane man, of full age, is presumed to know the law" !—Morning Chronicle.

The death of Admiral George M'Ilinley places two service pensions at the disposal of the Admiralty : one enjoyed by the late gallant Admiral since September 1851; and the other by Captain WilliamWalpole which he will cease to receive on his promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral.

The "distinguished service" pension of 1501. per annum has been con- ferred upon Admiral Zachary Mudge, vice WICinley, deceased. Admiral Mudge now retires from the active list.

Mr. Paget, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed private secretary to the Lord Chancellor; salary 15001. per annum.—Lieerpool Standard.

The Dowager Lady Byron, widow of the poet, is at present residing at Southampton.

Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris from his chateau in the South, much improved in health.

In conjunction with Mr. Cardwell, Lord Mahon is to assist in the publica- tion of the Peel Papers. It is stated in the current number of the United Service Gazette, by the writer of "A Visit to Apeley House," that the Duke e of Wellington has consigned the publication of his papers to the care also of Lord Mahon. If this be true, between the claims of his "History of Eng- land," and the several memoirs of Wellington and of Peel, the noble Lord is likely to have literary work before him for a good portion of his life.— _Atheneum.

A correspondent of the Inverness Courier says—" I am told on good au- thority, that a literary man of eminence, a writer of fiction, lately asked Mr. Disraeli whether he did not, after all, think that he would pass a happier life, and at the same time achieve more real fame, as a writer than as a poli- tician? 'Perhaps so, perhaps so,' is said to have been the reply ; but I must and I will have three years' power.'" Ole Bull left Norway on the 17th of December, by the Glenalbyn, on a new musical tour.

In the last sitting of the Roman Archreological Society, the Secretary read a letter from the King of Prussia, announcing his acceptance of the title of Honorary Member of the Society in the class of Sovereigns. A project is to be brought before Parliament for the embankment and re- clamation from the sea of the vast green and samphire marshes, mudlands, fiats, and shoals on the Eastern and Southern coasts of Essex, together with the improvement of the rivers Colne and Blackwater. The subscription con- tract has been signed for 162,000/.

Boston in the United States is about to have the advantage of an alarm electric telegraph, by means of which immediate notice of any fire can be given to all the fire-engine stations in the city. Forty-nine miles of wire have been stretched over the city and across an arm of the sea. There will be forty signal-boxes where an alarm can be given.

The following are a few facts lately pointed out by M. Blanqui in his last lecture on political economy, at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, where

he is professor of that science. Parisian industry produces annually frow fourteen to fifteen hundred millions of francs' worth of goods of various spe- cies. There are 325 principal branches of industry ; 61,000 patented masters ; 342,630 workpeople ; of whom 204,000 are men, 112,000 women, and 26,53e children. The first arrondissement, in which the carriage-trade is chiefly carried on, produces to the value of 102 millions ; the second, 177 millions; the third employs 32,000 workmen, producing 127 mills.., the fourth em- ploys 21,000 workmen, producing 72 millions ; the fifth, 51,000, producing 169 millions ; the sixth, 68,000, producing 235 millions. The last arrondisse- ment is especially Parisian; in it the artisan is truly a magician, a Proteas. —he excels in every branch : this arrondissement produces annually 235, millions worth of goods out of nothing, but it contributes its genius to the work. It is here that Paris goods are manufactured ; fancy turnery, buttons, brushes, canes, umbrellas, jewellery, plated work, lace, and a hundred thou- sand marvels of ingenuity, known and sought after in every part of the world. The seventh numbers 41,000 workmen, and produces 153 millions. It is very nearly related in character to the sixth. The eighth employs 50,000 workmen, and produces 132 millions. This is the quarter for cabi- netmaking, paper-hanging, carpentry, and brewing. The ninth numbers 15,000 workmen, producing 65 millions. The tenth numbers 20,000 work- men, producing 68 millions. The eleventh numbers 19,000 workmen, pro- ducing 63 millions. Lastly, the twelfth, which is the great quarter for tan- ners, rag-merchants, and brewers, numbers 70,000 workmen, producing 100 millions. Proceeding then to the study of special branches of industry, the professor noticed that of bronze-work, unrivalled in the world, and produ- cing 20 millions ; hat-making, 16 millions; glove-making, 14 millions. The wages vary among this immense population of workpeople from 20 centimes (2d.) a day to from 35f. to 40f. (from 28e. to 32s.) The average wage is 3f. 80c. c3s. 2d.) a day for a man, and for a woman If. 65c. (18. 4d.)—Le Monsieur.

Coffee was originally grown in Abyssinia, and not introduced into Arabia until about the year 1450 ; from whence it was brought into this country about two centuries later by a Turkey merchant, named Edwards. From, Arabia the cultivation of the plant spread into the various countries in which it is now grown ; and in those countries the produce has now reached the enormous quantity of 476,000,000 pounds yearly. Of this quantity Bra- zil produces 176,000,000 pounds ; Java, 124,000,000 pounds; Cuba and Porto Rico, 30,000,000 pounds ; St. Domingo, 35,000,000 pounds ; La Guayra, &c., 35,000,000 pounds; British West Indies, 8,000,000 pounds ; Ceylon, 40,000,000 pounds ; Malabar and Mysore, 5,000,000 pounds ; French and Dutch West Indies, 2,000,000 pounds ; Phillippines, 3,000,000 pounds ; Sumatra,

6,000,000 pounds ; Celebes, 1,000, pounds. 000 pounds ; Costa Rica, 9,000,000 pounds; Arabia, 3,000,000 pounds ; total, 476,000,000 Valued at 508. per hundredweight, and estimating the quantity which pays European duty— threepence per pound—at 300,000 000 pounds, the Governments of Europe derive from coffee a revenue of 3,700,000/., and the consumers pay nearly twenty millions sterling. The consumption in England in 1860 amounted to 31,226,840 pounds, or 1.33 pounds per head of the population—less than one-half the consumption of tea : the consumption of coffee in America is four times that of teL A Chinese carpenter belonging to an American ship having been charged before the Thames Police Magistrate with smuggling, the steward of the ship acted as interpreter. His translation was not into Chinese, but into, "broken English," which he declared the Chinainan would comprehend. Mr. Yardley observed, that this was "the commencement of a composite- language," he supposed.

A thief who broke into St. John's Church, Shrewsbury, drank a bottle of the sacramental wine, and afterwards fell asleep in a pew, has been com- mitted for trial.

The Courrier d'Athines relates, that just as the body of the wife of a Per- sian gipsv, named Plassan, was being interred in the cemetery in that city, a noise Was heard to proceed from the coffin. It was immediately opened, and on some restoratives being administered to the supposed dead woman, she soon recovered sufficiently to be able to return to her home.

Francisco Nadal, a Spaniard, recently died at Algiers at the great age of one hundred and four years and three months. He enjoyed good health to the last, walked about the town on his business as a carpenter, and smoked his cigar with evident gusto. One of his peculiarities for the last fifty years had been never to sleep in a bed, but merely to stretch himself in his clothes ois the shavings of his workshop.

A poor old cooper of 011erton, Notts, who for several years has deservedly earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, has, we are informed, by a late decision of the Court of Chancery, been declared entitled to property to the extent of 30,000/.-1)erby Mercury.